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Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description
flutterecho writes "A sophomore at Valdosta State University was expelled after criticizing his university's plan to build two new parking garages with student fees. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald Zaccari, the university's president, wrote that he 'present[ed] a clear and present danger to this campus' and referred to an image on the student's Facebook page which contained a threatening description. 'As additional evidence of the threat posed by Barnes, the document referred to a link he posted to his Facebook profile whose accompanying graphic read: "Shoot it. Upload it. Get famous. Project Spotlight is searching for the next big thing. Are you it?" It doesn't mention that Project Spotlight was an online digital video contest and that "shoot" in that context meant "record."' In a post-Virginia Tech world, has university surveillance of online identities gone too far?"
if I was a betting man I'd wager that p2p networks will very shortly become a thing of the past
the reason being that these are used primarily for copyright violations
i just got a new ISP and I noticed when i read the Acceptable Use *policy* that they strongly discouraged p2p software
get over it kids, the party's over, RSN
Occasionally there are good, informative posts on Slashdot like this one.
;-)
That said, "First!"
Are you really trying to say that a Slashdot poster should be held to the same level of expectations as the highest-level administrator at a school? I had no idea that posting on Slashdot required such a rigorous level of self-policing.
All this time I just thought of it as pissing into the wind. Thank you random grammar nazi! You've changed my life!
SRSLY.
All this time I just thought of it as pissing into the wind.
Pissing in the wind? No, more like braying like an ass.
Clear, Dark Skies
If only.
British Imperial Units and American Customary units are, in fact, two separate measurement systems that happen to use mostly the same names for their units, and approximately the same values. The system of US units was loosely based upon British Measurements in the 1700s, and wasn't updated in 1824, when the British "rationalized" their system.
For instance, 1 liquid US Gallon is equal to 0.833 British Gallons. Both systems used different interpretations of 3 different weight systems. Units of length were thankfully standardized in 1959 (although surveyors in the US still use the old definition of a yard, which is ever so slightly different).
I could go on, but wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining the mess.
The sick irony of it all is that Thomas Jefferson proposed in 1790 that the US adopt a decimalized system of measures loosely based around the Imperial system (eg. the "base units" would remain mostly unchanged), similar to the decimalized currency that the US introduced. The metric system wasn't implemented in France until 1791. Several subsequent US presidents recommended the adoption of the metric system, although no formal action was ever taken.
US measures have been strictly defined in terms of their metric equivalent by the government since 1893.
Sigh.....
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Yeah, Slashdot was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was Web 2.0. It's almost completely user generated content except for a few short articles that no one reads.
If you must moderate, please moderate as irrelevent, not something bad, because I'm sure someone will find this interest